question of a dissapointed man

[aracuan-greek]

hello,

hello to all.

as all you i have civ iv.however i am quite dissapointed cause i expected more.i wont talk much i will stick to the subject and please whoever wants to help i m thanking him in advance.so:

*by modding is there any way to make lethal bombardments of ships or in other units?
*is there any way to make artillery units to bombard units not when they are stationed in town,but in deserts hills,etc?
*is there anyway to make detroyrs,battleships,to "blitz"?to attack multiple times i mean cuase i consider it insane a battleship that cannot sink a fleet of 2 galleys at the same attack!
*is there anyway to make railroads to generate and trade as well cause i think is wrong to have only +1 hammer form discovering railroad?

i have downloaded python and some othr programms for editing and modding,however i see that there is much more complex instaed of the editor we use to have in civ 3.i m asking these question cause i respect the experience of modders and they should be able to know if these requirememnts are possible to take place.

 

[sir_woland]

I can't say about the two first points, but I suppose the latter two modifications should be rather easy to implement just by editing the XML files, no Python involved.

To give a unit the blitz ability, you'll have to edit Assets/XML/Units/CIV4UnitInfos.xml and add a free blitz promotion for the desired units. Take a look at entries on Tank, Modern Armor and German Panzer to see how it's done -- the tag to look for is FreePromotions.

By editing CIV4ImprovementInfos.xml and adding RouteYieldChanges tags it's possible to give different bonuses for squares with different improvements and a road/railroad, you can see entries for Mine and Lumbermill for a few examples. ROUTE_RAILROAD and ROUTE_ROAD are the possible RouteType values, and the three iYield entries seem to stand for food, production and money respectively. I tested this quickly and a farm with roads did generate +10 extra to all three... However, I have no clue if it's possible to give a road or railroad bonus to a square with no other improvements.